Testament - up to 40% off selected titles
Until 4th December, we are offering up to 40% off selected Testament titles on CD, vinyl and DVD. Please note that several titles are low on stock so if they sell out we may need to refund.
Testament - up to 40% off selected titles
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Special offer. Music for the Royal Fireworks
RecommendedPro Arte Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
Over the night of 13-14 April 1959 in St Gabriel's Church, Cricklewood, a recording session took place, historic in every way, when the young Charles Mackerras conducted a band of 62 wind players... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos
Final of the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition (Previously unpublished)
Van Cliburn (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin
Here, published for the first time, are the performances that sealed the Texan's first prize in the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, earning him a ticker-tape welcome back... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
RecommendedJutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria Graf, Gustav Neidlinger, Astrid Varnay, Maria von Ilosvay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic, Mina Bolotine, Hermann Uhde, Josef Greindl, Gré Brouwenstijn
Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
…Götterdämmerung with white-hot immediacy. The cast is superb, from Norns and Rhinemaidens upward. Keilberth sweeps them all along the path of tragedy with compellingly balanced drive and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Archive
4 CDs
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Special offer. Rostropovich & Britten
RecommendedRecorded live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival - Previously unpublished
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Benjamin Britten (piano), Peter Pears (tenor)
this Testament release of Rostropovich in his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival catches the cellist somewhere near his early and all-conquering best — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
2 CDs
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Special offer. The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alfred Deller (Oberon), Jennifer Vyvyan (Tytania), Leonide Massine II (Puck), Kevin Platts (Cobweb), Robert McCutcheon (Mustardseed), Barry Ferguson (Moth), Michael Bauer (Peaseblossom), George Maran (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Marjorie Thomas (Hermia), April Cantelo (Helena), Forbes...
The cast play as an ensemble with remarkable detail. Alfred Deller, especially, is in excellent voice as Oberon...though the playing is not immaculate, Britten leads his forces with tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Re-issue of the Month
2 CDs
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Special offer. Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Strauss & Wagner
RecommendedKirsten Flagstad
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th March 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Historic Archive
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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it is surely astonishing that Pollini could reject his early superfine brilliance,his aristocratic musicianship, his patrician ideal in the Chopin Etudes...What superb articulacy in, say, Op.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th December 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Historic
Vinyl Record
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
In the pantheon of essential Sibelius recordings, Barbirolli's October 1962 account of the Second Symphony with the RPO deservedly occupies a place of honour. Recorded at Walthamstow for Reader's... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Historic Reissue
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